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Book at Bedtime: Gabrielle Zevin - The Collected Works of AJ Fikry

Madeleine Potter

Hari Dhillon

Gabrielle Zevin

Sally Marmion

Elizabeth Allard

Book at Bedtime: Gabrielle Zevin - The Collected Works of AJ Fikry: Episode 1: Love and Loss

The Collected Works of AJ Fikry

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Episode 1: Love and Loss

Gabrielle Zevin - The Collected Works of AJ Fikry

Love and Loss

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A bookshop owner struggles with a devastating loss and a baby is found abandoned.

4 Extra Debut. A bookshop owner struggles with a devastating loss and a baby is found abandoned. Read by Madeleine Potter and Hari Dhillon. From March 2014.

Beguiling, funny and poignant, The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry is largely set in Island Books, a failing independent bookshop in the middle of an island community off the American coast. A. J.Fikry, the shop's owner, is struggling to come to terms with a devastating loss, Amelia, a sales rep for a small publisher can't find the right man, and Maya, the baby found abandoned beside the piles of books, with a note, all gravitate to its teetering stackes. Island Books brings them together and offers life lessons gleaned from reading which are passed on and shared.

Gabrielle Zevin is an award winning American novelist, writing for adults and young adults. She is also a screenwriter; her first screenplay was 'Conversations with Other Women' which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart.

Madeleine Potter has appeared in numerous films, television series, and theatre productions. She is well known to Radio 4 audiences for We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Great Swim and Where'd You Go, Bernadette.

Hari Dhillon reads from A.J. Fikry's journal. Hari has read for Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime and starred in Holby City.

The abridger is Sally Marmion and the producer is Elizabeth Allard.

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By Gabrielle Zevin. Story set in a quirky independent bookshop

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